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Politics has become hi-tech with sophisticated databases, the Internet, TV ads, focus groups and polls.
But a lanky Sangamon County, Ill., lawyer described the essential task of politics in 1840 in a letter to his Whig campaign committee. Make a list of the voters, he wrote, ascertain for whom they will vote, have undecided voters talked to by someone they hold in confidence, and, on Election Day, get all Whig voters to the polls.
Abraham Lincoln was a great president, but he was also a very practical politician.
Read the rest here in the Wall Street Journal.
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Mr Esmay, that was one damned fine little post, retelling a great story of an even greater man.
A writer you truly are becoming.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I’d be even more flattered if my name were Karl Rove. :-)
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